I’m a Senior Lecturer in Game Design and Programming with a background in Internet architectures and streaming services, radar and real-time systems, and technology enhanced healthcare and services.
My undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh (MSc (Hons) Electronics and Computer Science) led me into the world of optimised real-time reliable systems before moving onto my doctorate from the University of Glasgow (EngD System Level Integration) which initially looked at video codecs and streaming services before moving into optimised network topologies and auto-organising network address systems for mobility.
My career has taken some twists and turns moving into games technologies, and visualisation technologies such as AR and VR in particular with mental health and support as a key area of focus. I’ve undertaken consultancy in projects such as VR mental health applications, AI assisted object recognition and lifecycle management with AR visualisations, lifecycle maturity gamification and distribution, and on-site offline AR visualisations for large scale construction.
Professional memberships and activities
- Registered with the HCPC
- Member British Society of Immunology
- Member Royal Society of Biology
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Academic qualifications
- EngD System Level Integration, the University of Glasgow
- MEng (Hons) Electronics and Computer Science, the University of Edinburgh
Expertise
- Software design and development
- AR/VR project design and development
- Scalable network applications and distribution
- Game design and development
- Academic pedagogy and design
Research interests
- AR/VR technologies
- Healthcare technologies
- Mental health support and assessment
- Digital twins/shadows
- Game technologies in traditional business environments
- Pedagogy and information distribution
Enterprise and commercial interests
- Multiple KTP projects in bespoke software development using game technologies
- Consultancy works for AR/VR construction management, mental health applications
- Facility design, layout, and management.
Teaching
- Game Technologies programme modules focused on low level programming and development (C++)
- Group project modules (various)
- Independent projects
Publications
- Note Taking in VR: The Forearm Keyboard, Davis, B. and Hughes-Roberts, T. and Windmill, C., isbn 9781925953985, 2023
- Legal Considerations for Using Digital Twins in Additive Manufacture – A Review of the Literature, ISSN 2352-7528, DOI 10.3233/atde210018, Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXIV, publisher IOS Press, Clementson, Jenny and Teng, Jason and Wood, Paul and Windmill, Chris, 2021
- Managing Intellectual Property Issues with Digital Twins, author Christopher Windmill and Clementson, J. and Wood, P. and Windmill, C., 2021
- High-Performance Time-Series Quantitative Retrieval From Satellite Images on a GPU Cluster, volume 12, ISSN 2151-1535, DOI 10.1109/jstars.2019.2920077, number 8, journal IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Liu, Jia and Xue, Yong and Ren, Kaijun and Song, Junqiang and Windmill, Christopher and Merritt, Patrick, 2019, aug, pages 2810–2821
- A Heterogeneous and Interactive Big Earth Data Framework, DOI 10.1145/3341620.3341628, booktitle Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Big Data Engineering, publisher ACM, Bi, Haixia and Xue, Yong and Merritt, Patrick and Windmill, Chris and Davis, Bradley, 2019, jun, pages 85–91, collection BDE 2019
- Big Earth Data: a comprehensive analysis of visualization analytics issues, volume 2, ISSN 2574-5417, DOI 10.1080/20964471.2019.1576260, number 4, journal Big Earth Data, publisher Informa UK Limited, Merritt, Patrick and Bi, Haixia and Davis, Bradley and Windmill, Christopher and Xue, Yong, 2018, oct, pages 321–350
- A Hierarchical Geographically Based Routing Model for Improved Localised Routing, journal Systems Information and Modelling Conference, Christopher Windmill, year 2015
- Aggregation Loss Bandwidth in the Last Mile Residential Internet, DOI 10.1109/uksim.2014.86, booktitle 2014 UKSim-AMSS 16th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, publisher IEEE, Windmill, Christopher, 2014, mar, pages 462–467
- Characterisation of Large Changes in Wind Power for the Day-Ahead Market Using a Fuzzy Logic Approach, volume 28, ISSN 1610-1987, DOI 10.1007/s13218-014-0322-3, number 4, journal KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Martínez-Arellano, Giovanna and Nolle, Lars and Cant, Richard and Lotfi, Ahmad and Windmill, Christopher, 2014, aug, pages 239–253
- A Hierarchical Geographically Based Routing Model for Improved Localised Routing, journal Systems Information and Modelling Conference, Windmill, C., doi 10.5555/2681970.2682436, isbn 9780769551982, 2014